[PATCH] speakup: Document USB support

From: Samuel Thibault
Date: Fri Oct 20 2023 - 14:11:10 EST


Speakup has been supporting USB for a while already.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/spkguide.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/spkguide.txt
index 74ea7f391942..0d5965138f8f 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/spkguide.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/spkguide.txt
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Last modified on Mon Sep 27 14:26:31 2010
Document version 1.3

Copyright (c) 2005 Gene Collins
-Copyright (c) 2008 Samuel Thibault
+Copyright (c) 2008, 2023 Samuel Thibault
Copyright (c) 2009, 2010 the Speakup Team

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
@@ -83,8 +83,7 @@ spkout -- Speak Out
txprt -- Transport
dummy -- Plain text terminal

-Note: Speakup does * NOT * support usb connections! Speakup also does *
-NOT * support the internal Tripletalk!
+Note: Speakup does * NOT * support the internal Tripletalk!

Speakup does support two other synthesizers, but because they work in
conjunction with other software, they must be loaded as modules after
@@ -94,6 +93,12 @@ These are as follows:
decpc -- DecTalk PC (not available at boot up)
soft -- One of several software synthesizers (not available at boot up)

+By default speakup looks for the synthesizer on the ttyS0 serial port. This can
+be changed with the device parameter of the modules, for instance for
+DoubleTalk LT:
+
+speakup_ltlk.dev=ttyUSB0
+
See the sections on loading modules and software synthesizers later in
this manual for further details. It should be noted here that the
speakup.synth boot parameter will have no effect if Speakup has been